Dutch Digital Arts

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Dutch Digital Arts (working title) is a book about digital creative expression (i.e. art using computers) in the Netherlands. It will be written from scratch from late 2015 until at least 2017.

Highlights in this book date from the early beginnings of computer arts (typically in the 1950s) till approximately 2010. The latest developments after 2010 are not covered yet, in order to keep some historical distance.

Focus is on creative output that would not have been possible without computers. This may include creative output that is strongly inspired by the digital, but perhaps not digital in its creation process.

The book covers digital creativity that took place in, or that was strongly influenced by, the Netherlands. This includes Dutch artists and initiatives, but also foreigners who were active in the Netherlands.

The book aims to cover a broad selection of creative disciplines. Digital creativity is interdisciplinary by nature.

The preparation phase of this book is covered by a start subsidy (grant) from Creative Industries Fund NL. Because this is public funding, all output will - as much as possible - be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. Initiator and main contact for this project is Sandra Fauconnier, User:Spinster.

All texts in this book are written by a small, independent editorial team. An advisory board of Dutch and international academics, artists, activists and other experts reviews the editorial process and gives advice.

A large part of the editorial process takes place here, transparently, on Wikibooks. For this aspect of the book, contributions, edits and input by any Wikibooks user are very welcome.

Final decisions about the contents and format of this book are taken by the editorial team, with the editor in chief having the last word.

The editorial team hold regular (mostly online) meetings with the goal to divide the work among themselves, finetune current work, and discuss and process the input from the advisory board.

Texts in this book are edited online on Wikibooks, if that is possible within copyright restrictions.

As much as possible, images for the book will be requested to be released under Wikimedia-compatible licenses. Not all rights holders will agree with this. As much as possible though, images for this book will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

Where relevant and possible (also within copyright restrictions), texts and images for the book will also be uploaded to the Internet Archive, for preservation purposes.

Next to the digital publication on Wikibooks, a hard copy book will be produced, which will be more extensive and structured than the Wikibooks edition in several ways:

More (often copyright-protected) texts and images

Providing more context in the form of additional essays and visualizations

Beautifully designed

Short articles in the hard copy book will probably be organized chronologically (taking the 'period of activity' of the person/organisation/initiative/artwork into account). The essays will also probably be organized in more or less chronological (and also historically logical) order.